Weird NJ searches for Al Capone's summer home deep in the Jersey Pines

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Apr. 13, 2014

Al Capone

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Though best known for his criminal career in Chicago, Al "Scarface" Capone actually began his life of lawlessness in Brooklyn, and expanded the reach of his Prohibition-era crime syndicate into New Jersey and Philadelphia, smuggling and bootlegging liquor, bribing government figures and dealing in prostitution in the early 1920s.

Fans of the popular HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" see the criminal exploits of a young (fictionalized) Capone at the Jersey Shore in Atlantic City. But how much time did that crime boss actually spend in the Garden State and just what was he doing here?